The Italian portal Calcio e Finanza has published this Saturday the figures of the highest salaries in the world of cycling for the 2022 season. A peculiar classification that allows us to know the salaries of the great figures of the platoon and in which we can see the occasional surprise in some of the salaries.
The Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, current champion of the Tour de France, appears as the highest paid cyclist in the world with 6 million euros after the contract extension he made with the UAE Emirates until 2027. The second in this classification is another Tour de France champion, Chris Froome, who receives 5.5 million euros in the ranks of the Israel Premier-Tech. The three-time world champion completes the podium Peter Sagan, who will also receive 5.5 million euros this season after changing scenery and joining TotalEnergies.
In the Top-10 of the highest salaries in the squad, the Ineos-Grenadiers make economic muscle, since Geraint Thomas, with 3.5 million; Egan Bernal, with 2.8 million; and Michal Kwiatkowski, with 2.5 million, they appear in the fourth, fifth and sixth position of the classification, ahead of the world champion Julian Alaphilippe, with 2.3 million euros.
In the eighth position of the best paid appears the Spanish Alejandro Valverde, who in his last season as a professional will receive 2.2 million euros in Movistar. same amount will receive Richard Carapaz in the Ineos-Grenadiers and Wout Van Aert in the Jumbo-Visma. The Ecuadorian and the Belgian close the Top-10 of the ranking of the highest paid cyclists.
The position in this classification of runners such as Primoz Roglic, Mathieu Van der Poel or Nairo Quintana among others is surprising. Roglic and Van der Poel appear in positions 12 and 13 respectively with a salary of 2 million euros per year, the same amount as Adam Yates, Thibaut Pinot, Romain Bardet or Jakob Fuglsang, and only 100,000 euros less than what Vincenzo Nibali will receive this year, eleventh in this classification with 2.1 million. For your part Nairo Quintana is ranked 19th best paid with a salary of 1.9 million euros in the ranks of Arkéa-Samsic.